lar characteristics, and can manifest themselves in two different ways. It either takes place in the infects the bloodstream, or infects the lungs, the latter being much deadlier. When the bloodstream is infected from the bite of a flea, the lymph nodes in the body swell to the size of an apple or golf ball, and ooze blood and pus. Since the flea usually bites on the legs, the sores will most likely appear in the groin area and armpits, making it painful to even walk. Also, black blotches appear on the skin from internal bleeding, and there is a white coat on the tongue. When the lungs are infected, other symptoms include sweating, intolerance to light, spitting of blood and continuous fever until death, which is in just one to three days. All of these symptoms are very painful, and after a couple of days of having this disease, death is a welcome relief. Black Death spreads in two ways. First, it starts in unsanitary conditions where it can spread by fleas, who are carriers of the disease. It starts when they bite an infected rat. The bacteria then blocks their digestive system, making them regurgitate the infected blood into a human when the bite. Second, in crowded, unsanitary urban areas where the disease is widespread, it can be passed from man to man through microscopic drops of saliva when a person coughs or sneezes. This leads to the before mentioning lung infection. When people think of the Bubonic Plague, they usually think of the plague which devastated Europe in the mid 1300's, but the history of the plague goes much further back than that. There were accounts of the plague in the Old Testament, and then again in Athens in 430B.C. The plague was dormant for many years, but then reappeared in China in the 1330's. It finally hit Europe in 1347 when Genose trading ships whose sailors were infected, landed in, and infected, almost every major port in Europe. It stayed in Europe and swept through for many years until it finally reached England in 1664 and caused what is known as the Great Plague of London. Europe had heard of the plague, but didn't know how bad it really was until it got there, and when it did, it had huge effects on the economy and the communities in Europe. The effects of the Bubonic plague had on the economy are these. Since there was a greater number of deaths in the city than in the country because of the crowded conditions, ther

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